Vacation of music

What a great way to start off my first ever vacation with full salary: Iron Maiden's gig in Helsinki last Thursday, and finishing off with a 3 day rock festival in Åbo. About 22 000 people came to see Rammstein play last Friday, and it was well worth while, although their show was almost exactly the same as their concert in Helsinki last October. At the Maiden gig, Bruce Dickinson dedicated one song for the victims of the London bombing earlier that day and swaying lights where everywhere in the crowd.

Now back out in the heat (it's 27 degrees) and off to the concert, Hanoi Rocks, the Hives and Within Temptation are yet to come!

Ruisrock festival blog

Hufvudstadsbladet, which has the widest circulation of the newspapers in Swedish in Finland, has just launched what seems to be their first blog (though the blog lacks certain features like comments and the like but the author calls it a blog) and it's theme is... Ruisrock, a great rock festival in Åbo where I used to live. Super! I just got tickets to it and I'm counting the days to go there. I'll definitely keep up with this blog.